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Business Hall of Bootlickers
- komali2 7y agoI wrote Gap directly when the sweater incident happened and got some form letter bullshit. I've been an obstinate asshole when it comes to Taiwan for about six years now. The most obnoxious thing is there's some ISO list somewhere that has Taiwan's name as "Taiwan, province of China." Is Macau or Hong Kong "province of China" in ISO listings? No. But China has the most fragile fucking ego in all the world and goes out of the way to get everyone to buy into its fantasies. Recently Personal Capital used the ISO country list and I emailed them about it. They mailed back that they chose that list because ISO, but they are talking about it internally and what to do about it. I know people there and apparently it's a rough debate - there are both Chinese and Taiwanese employees, and it is getting weird. On the one hand you have a Chinese woman who has (we aren't sure if this was ironic) claimed that China has no pollution and that it's just Western propaganda, on the other you have employees who have colleagues that are questioning the sovereignty of their own citizenship. Madness. Gems from random Americans there include "well do we want to offend 30 million people (Taiwan) or 1.2 billion (China)?" Makes me wonder how other companies are handling the situation. As if "being offended" is what is at stake. You either reflect the reality of the world by acknowledging Taiwan's sovereign status, or you parrot the PRC's mentally ill fantasy. There's no other way to express it.